Adrien Brody has been slammed by Oscars viewers after being caught on camera exhibiting rather gross behaviour.

Brody, 51, secured the award for Best Actor at last night’s Academy Awards ceremony for his role as László Tóth in The Brutalist, beating the likes of Timothee Chalamet, Colman Domingo, Sebastian Stan and Ralph Fiennes.

However, the actor’s achievement was overshadowed after fans noticed a ‘disgusting’ exchange between himself and girlfriend, Georgina Chapman.

The camera panned over to Brody as he walked onto the stage to accept the award and caught the actor pulling a piece of used chewing gum out of his mouth and tossing it behind him.

Now, I’d imagine that chomping on a piece of gum while delivering you acceptance speech is generally frowned upon, but the done thing would be to discreetly deposit the chewy into a piece of tissue or a wrapper? Apparently not.

To make things even weirder, Chapman then ran towards the flying gum and caught it in her hands, making sure that Brody wasn’t caught on camera littering at the biggest night in the Hollywood calendar.

Take a look at the bizarre moment and wonder what on Earth was running through Brody’s mind below:

Naturally, the internet had a lot to say about chewing gumgate and not a lot of it was positive.

“Not Adrien Brody doing the, ‘hold my gum,’” wrote one shocked viewer on X, as a second added: “Adrien Brody could’ve used his long speech to apologise to his partner for throwing gum at her.”

Others were even more blunt with their thoughts in the interaction and outright slammed Brody for chucking the gum.

“No shade but Adrien throwing that gum at his wife was so tacky and gross,” penned a third viewer.

“Disgusting. he could have swallowed,” added a fourth.

However, not all of the internet was filled with a baying mob furious over Brody’s actions, as some viewers seemed to think the exchange was rather sweet.

“Adrien Brody throwing his chewing gum and his wife catching it is true love,” one person commented.

“I would’ve been fighting for Adrian Brody’s piece of gum like a wedding bouquet,” wrote a second.

The chewing gum toss wasn’t the only viral moment of Brody’s, as Halle Berry got her own back after their infamous moment from the 2003 awards, which saw Brody controversially kiss the X-Men actress without her consent.

The actor also received backlash for the length of his acceptance speech, which overly long acceptance speech. “Adrien Brody’s speech is gonna have an intermission,” joked one viewer, while others compared it to The Brutalist’s three hours and 35 minutes runtime.